Grandi Navi Veloci makes Moroccan moves
Italy's Grimaldi group is launching a new ro-ro service between Italy and Morocco via Spain at the end of the month.
Grandi Navi Veloci, the group's cruise-ferry division, has won EU funding under the Marco Polo programme for the Genoa - Barcelona -Tangiers service.
Initially the route will be operated weekly, with departures from Genoa every Saturday evening and from Tangiers every Tuesday morning.
It will remove about 60,000 vehicles from the road every year, Grimaldi said, and could be about 50% cheaper than all-land services.